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Recently, the European market has become an indispensable part of Chinese foreign trade. In 2013, China put forward “the Belt and Road” initiative in order to communicate the Eurasian Continent. There has been 24 European countries joining in “the Belt and Road” initiative while most developed countries...

The number of patients with diabetes has been rising steadily. Statistics show a worldwide increase from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014 [1]. Most diabetics in the world suffer from type 2 diabetes. Successful treatment requires greater motivation from patients due to its symptoms. Currently,...

Indonesia’s long-desired quality education has not yet attained as the national quality indicators consistently show students’ low achievement, as the result of their poor understanding of school subjects. It happens because of the frequent use of rote learning strategy, instead of deep level of cognitive...

Health promotion programs at schools have not reached the expected indicators. The purpose of this study was to get an overview of the implementation of health programs at junior high schools in Semarang. This research used quantitative and qualitative design. The sample were 4 junior high school in...

The inclusion of strict liability provision in the Indonesian EMAs has a long history. Since the enactment of the first EMA of 1982 up to the third EMA of 2009, there have been 45 community environmental disputes submitted to the District Court, but the Court verdicts have torn the sense of the people's...

Tire production Indonesia has been increased by numbers from year to year along with a great amount causes the availability of abundant rubber tire waste, this waste has not been widely used and has unravel able properties leading into environmental pollution. In this research, we developed an environmentally...

Using the ecopsychological approach for mental development, the authors study the problem of cadets' creative imagination in the structure of their agency not by itself but in the holistic unity within the educational environment. In doing so, cadets' creative imagination is considered as the highest...

Short term of cash return in natural resources management as economic benefit has been considered as a usual approach in practice. However, environmental degradation has been escalated since this approach ignores its negative impacts to the environment. This, of course, has caused the increase of greenhouse...

As an oil fuel distributor, Malang Oil Fuel Terminal should have some strategies in carrying out service activities to customers (gas stations / SPBU). Customer satisfaction is one of the goals of company to increase customer loyalty by fulfilling customer expectations. This study aims to re-design the...

Globalization can be described as an era of freedom. This certainly bring dizziness for many societies, because the dizziness of globalization bring positive and negative impacts for the perpetrators. Indonesia is known as a country that is rich in race, tribe and culture has certainly benefited from...

The significant differences between the company tax rate and the loan interest rate create incentives for companies in Indonesia to conduct trade-offs between accounting and tax reporting costs. Management always wants to give a good signal for investors regarding company financial performance. On the...

Many factors can affect a person’s quality of life, including therapy with antihypertensive drugs that often have uncomfortable side effects and lead to decreased quality of life. This study aimed to determine the statistical relationship between the characteristics and quality of life of hypertensive...

The studies are devoted to the currently incompletely solved both in theoretical and practical aspects problem of managing the development of the dairy industry. One of the tasks aimed at solving it is the need to develop a non-standard approach to the theoretical foundations of regulation of this industry...

By comparing the situation with financial inclusion in developing and developed countries we look at the notion of ‘new financially excluded’. There seems to be a growing evidence that the implementation of new technologies that was seen as a universal cure for financial exclusion backfires for some...

Background: The evidence that the combination of elastic and weight resistance training acutely affects or improves resultant responses to conduit artery function is anecdotal. The aim of this study was to examine brachial artery flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD) before and after acute exercise when performed...

Background: Chronic systemic inflammatory diseases (CSID) are associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Widening of retinal venular calibers has been independently associated with systemic inflammation and cardiovascular risk in the general population. We aimed to test the hypothesis...

Background: Water pipe (WP) tobacco smoking is gaining wide popularity among young and middle aged males and females. Aim of the work: The aim of this study was to evaluate the immediate effect of 1st pipe water smoking on brachial Flow mediated dilatation% (FMD%) and Nitrate mediated dilatation% (NMD%)...

Learning Al Islam and Kemuhammadiyahan (AIK) is one of the compulsory learning in all levels of Muhammadiyah education which has the general goal of forming human learners who are pious, noble, advanced and superior in science and technology as the embodiment of tajdid amar makruf nahi mungkar. In order...

The Belt and Road Initiative today is one of the biggest integrational projects in the world. It connects Asia, Africa and Europe, so it is no surprise that the European countries tend to assess their benefits and losses from taking part in it. The Southern European economies are willing to participate...

Background: Incretine hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) causes dose-dependent relaxation of the thoracic aorta of rats and other arteries via nitric oxide (NO), cAMP and ATP-sensitive potassium channels, however, through a mechanism not thoroughly described. Hereby we aimed to determine the mediators...

Arterial input impedance, as complete description of the arterial system, is explained by waves and wave reflection. Without wave reflections input impedance would equal aortic characteristic impedance and pressure and flow wave shapes would be similar. Waves reflect at many locations, causing input...

Reputation, as an intangible asset, has brought many benefits to the social subject. However, with the development of social science and technology, there are more and more acts of infringing on the right of reputation. At the same time, the act of infringing upon the right of reputation of citizens...

This paper is inspired by circumstances where the level of corruption is increasing both in quantity and quality. Corruption is increasingly massive and widespread not only by executive, legislative but also law enforcement officials. Criminal sanctions imposed on corruptors are not optimal and are not...

One of the forms of socio-cultural pluralism of Indonesia is the existence of indigenous peoples with their customary law system. Indonesia as an archipelagic country, the number of indigenous peoples is estimated at around 40-50 million, out of more than 10,000 ethnic and sub-ethnic groups spreading...

In the discipline of fine arts, design development can be considered to be quite fast and even so flexible, that it is often difficult to establish its limitations. One of the results of this phenomenon is the variety of understanding and interpretations that is not much different from the reality of...

The research focused on the development of early childhood through the use of game which based on cultural values. The selection of games based on local culture of Sundanese is based on the facts that many games that are not appropriate for early childhood today, which not only makes the decline in awareness...

An important milestone in network development is ISO's (International Standardization Organization) definition of the OSI (Open System Interconnection) seven-layer network model. The OSI reference model is a logical definition, that is specification, it logically divides the network into seven layers....

Character education values can be integrated not only when learning in class, but also in school culture. Some teachers do not integrate these character education values in school culture. The purpose of this study was to find out about the transformation of school cultural values in character education...

The Author investigates the problem of mutual influence and dependences between estimates of quality of “economic” institutions, indicators of monetary stability, and growth rates in representative group of different economies - developed, developing and transitional (Selected Economies) at 2002-2013,...

Most new undergraduate colleges are upgraded from higher vocational colleges, having aspirations that the upgrading is the solution to the predicament of their development, and the fact is that the upgrading does not completely solve the problem, but it gives rise to some new problems. There are two...

Psychological class is considered a means of development of students’ needs to cognize psychological phenomena, self-cognize and self-improvement. This goal can be achieved only when the learning process is not formal, but has intrinsic personal significance for students. The article substantiates new...

One of the fundamental requirements for everybody is security. Museums and galleries in Surabaya is viewed as less secure, as prove by the uncontrolled wrongdoing that happened like vandalism to the burglary of exhibition hall objects. The museums ought to be a place that can show us about the past and...

Within the late of 1980s to the early 1990s, a myriad of films containing Holocaust were produced. One of which was Schindlers’ List. The depiction of eeriness of holocaust was wrapped in a scantily flawed film, subtly permeated into people’s minds. The filmmaker spreads their power, asking for people’s...

In accordance with weakness of traditional biomass models in which the sum of the above- and below-ground tree components was not equal to the whole tree, compatible biomass equations were developed for the above- and below-ground tree components of 11 kinds of tree species in Heilongjiang Province....

The failure law is not clear in operation of complex electronic system. The failure data can not be effectively used. And it is difficult to assess the current state of the system. This paper proposed a fitting method of failure data based on triple Weibull distribution model for complex repairable long-life-cycle...

The positive impact of globalization, the increasing progress of science and technology, such as biological science and information technology. The advancement of science and technology will give birth to creative people who can produce innovative products, such as in the field of bioinformatics so they...

Globalization has subjected corporations to multi-jurisdictional tax systems. As a result, cross-border entities are exposed to the possibility of being audited and undergoing tax adjustments more than once for their transactions. In addition, various states’ measures — such as Tax Information Exchange...

Law No. 4 of 2009 on Minerals and Coal constitutes the legal basis of mining business activities in Indonesia, in which case foreign companies shall be subject to the provisions of Law Number 13 Year 2016 regarding Patents in the context of holders of mining patents. The provisions of Article 20 paragraph...

Scaffolding involves a more targeted approach to teaching. Teachers tend to have challenges on arrange the instruction so that the needs of differentiated learners are addressed. The challenges of scaffolding learning is compounded by the fact that most curricular materials are designed to support teaching...

Vocational education is one solution to improve the quality of human resources in Indonesia. The challenge as well as the advantages for Indonesia is a large demographic area, so that the standardization of vocational education is needed. In this study, it is discussed how the perceptions of standard...

The paper derives a Multivariate Asymmetric Long Memory conditional volatility model with Exogenous Variables (X), or the MALMX model, with dynamic conditional correlations, appropriate regularity conditions, and associated asymptotic theory. This enables checking of internal consistency and allows valid...

City tourism contains plentiful data information, but not all the information is interested by tourists. Relying on tourists' interests, this paper designs and develops city tourism interest geographic information data collection system. Take Zhengzhou urban sight spots as an example to collection data...

A good piece of academic writing is achieved through hard work and dedication. The hard work and dedication require the academic writing basic knowledge mastery. Yet, this is not an easy task for university students. This conceptual paper proposes how to model academic writing for university students...

research aims to explore if there is fraud in a financial statement, use the Act stated that Benford's distribution number the first digit until the fifth will follow the trend of lower number. Research methods-in this case study authors use the first digit until fifth of the analysis of the numbers....

The extended equal area criterion (EEAC) is one of the most important methods to identification the stability of Multi-generator Power System, and the key of this method is to correctly identify the critical unit. However, critical units of the existing recognition methods exist some problems, such as...

For determining the reasonable ratio of spacing to diameter of double tunnels, the criterion is often only for the excavation, and does not take into account the earthquake situation. In order to ensure the stability of surrounding rock masses, safety and economic rationality during construction and...

In this article, the analysis of the tendencies of development for profile education in the sphere of culture and art in the Russian Federation and assessment of their influence on the state cultural policy is carried out. Relevance of the conducted research consists in assessment of a role of profile...

The high use of ototoxic drugs, especially antibiotics such as aminoglycosides and anticancer drugs such as cisplatin still can not be avoided as a therapeutic option. The use of ototoxic drugs can cause damage to the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular canals leading to hearing loss and balance disorders....

Since the popularization of colleges digitization, the traditional ideological and political education can not meet the needs of college students. It is urgent to carry out ideological and political education with the times by the means of computer network. It is necessary and urgent to carry out the...

Worksheets, one of the instructional media, have to be prepared before teaching since they affect the teaching and learning process. The 2013 curriculum requires the learning implementation to be applied based on the scientific approach including the development of worksheets. However, it has not yet...